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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Anne & Lynn Wheeler
>
> re:
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#16
>
> ibm press from 17feb1992, "scientific and technical only"
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
> more ibm press 11may1992, "company caught by surprise by national lab
> interest in cluster computing
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
>
> however, old email about doing benchmarks for LLNL interested in cluster
> compute farm of 70 4341s
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790220
> other old 4341 email
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
>
> 1980, I get con'ed into doing channel-extender support for IBM STL (now
> silicon valley lab) that was
> remoting 300 people from the IMS group to offsite bldg. An effort to release
> it to customers is
> blocked by group in POK that have been playing with some serial stuff and
> they were afraid it might
> make it more difficult to get what they were doing released. some past posts
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
>
> mid-80s, I'm trying to get project started that would have large number of
> 370 & 801/risc chips in
> racks. at the same time i'm working with NSF on interconnecting the NSF
> supercomputer centers (morphs
> into NSFNET backbone, the precursor to modern internet). old email about
> schedule conflict between
> internal meeting and making presentation to director of NSF
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850314 ..
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email850315 ..
>
> eventually NSF releases an RFP, but internal politics prevent us from
> bidding. Director of NSF tries
> to help by writing company a letter (with support from other gov. agencies),
> but that just makes the
> internal politics worse. other old NSF related email
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
>
> 1988, LLNL has some serial stuff and I'm asked if I can help them get it out
> as industry standard ...
> eventually morphs into the fibre-channel standard.
>
> Even tho by then it is obsolete, the POK group finally gets their serial
> stuff released in 1990 with
> ES/9000 as ESCON.
>
> 1992, we are using the LLNL fibre-channel standard stuff as part of the
> ha/cmp commercial cluster
> scaleup ... old ref
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
> in some of the collection of old cluster scaleup email
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
> the last one is about cluster computing meeting at LLNL (very end of
> jan1992). I'm unable to make the
> meeting so a friend at another vendor fills in for me and then comes by later
> to fill me in on what
> happened (only hrs before we are told that cluster scaleup has been
> transferred and we can't work on
> anything with more than four processors)
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email920129
>
> some POK engineers eventually get involved in the fibre-channel stuff,
> defining a heavyweight protocol
> layer (that significantly cuts the native thruput) which eventually morphs
> into FICON ... some past
> posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
Many parallels to how Packard (the car co.) "engineered itself out of
business". :-)
-jc-
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